Friday, November 9, 2012

Fall Workshop Card

I am so excited to be going to Stampin' Up!'s Regional event in Lansing, MI tomorrow! I have all of my swaps ready to go and can't wait to show you some of the swaps I will be getting back from all of the talented ladies there. Tomorrow I will show you the ones that I made to swap with.

For today, I wanted to share with you a card I am doing at a workshop on Sunday. The hostess had requested one fall and one Christmas card. She is having 10-14 people, so I needed to keep them both fairly simple. For the Christmas card, I CASE'd a card that is in our demonstrator magazine, Stampin' Success! Just another perk of being a demonstrator...you don't even have to come up with any ideas if you don't want to; they give us plenty of resources! For the fall card, I wanted to use the theme challenge from The Paper Players.

I thought it would be great to show the ladies how to make the realistic leaves that I have been loving lately, so I came up with this super easy card.

For the background, I inked up one of our acrylic blocks with More Mustard and then sponged Cajun Craze around the edges. It didn't ink up perfectly the first time, but I was easily able to ink it up a few more times since it is clear! Here is a closer look at the leaf:

I spritzed mine with my homemade Crumb Cake Shimmer Spritz. I am addicted to that stuff! I can't wait to show the ladies at the workshop how to make these beautiful leaves. I think they will be really impressed!